People trust reviews on blogs as much as the next platform

Blog reviews are a big thing when it comes to branding and increasing your own sales. There are plenty of times when I get a sale and the client says they purchased because they saw a positive review on another website. There is a right way to get reviews and a wrong way, and I'm here to help you get plenty of reviews the right way lol

Getting reviews from bloggers isn't anything new, it's actually been around ever since there were blogs and people wanted to post content to them. There are blogs dedicated to reviewing websites and services and there are niche related blogs that post a review based on their own experiences from something they purchased or were given.

In this discussion I will be going over how you can acquire some good blog reviews about your product or service in order to increase your own sales. Believe it or not, people will find your website and then look you up online to see what other people are saying about you. If you did everything right, they will land on the reviews that you obtained for yourself and it will ensure a sale almost every time People will usually look up "(your domain) review" in order to see what others are already saying, and make a purchasing decision based on that, even though they don't know the people posting the content.

Niche related blog reviews
Getting a review on a niche related blog is a great thing to get when it comes to your search engine rankings. Think of this as a one two punch, you get more sales because of a positive review on a website or blog and you also get a decent boost in the search engine rankings from the niche related backlink you will get

If you're having trouble finding your own positive reviews on niche related blogs, it's usually due to them not being there. To avoid this, you need to contact every niche related blog you can find and offer your services for free. You can offer a steep discount, but you likely won't get as many reviews because the person had no intention of purchasing in the first place, so why should they now? lol.

After you scrape together a large list of niche related blogs, you can send them all the same email or fill out their "contact us" form and say something along the lines of...

Hi there,

My website is (your website here) and I was wondering if you would like some of our services for free in return for an honest review on your website?

We are new and trying to get out name out there, and getting honest reviews on websites like yours is one of the best ways to do this. We lose money because we are giving away our services, but it should slowly even out in the long run if you are kind enough to help us out.

Thank You,

(Your Name Here)

Sending this little snippet of an email will usually get people to open up their hearts and help you out. You're contacting a niche related blog, so they should jump at the deal for some free services in return for an "honest" review

Purchasing positive blog reviews
If you can't get enough people to write up positive reviews on their own blogs, you can always purchase some Now this is a less ethical way of getting positive reviews out there, but it still works very well with potential clients and increasing your search engine rankings.

You can simply search for blog reviews here on SEOLads and find the ones that are closely related to your niche. When I do this, I will click "Add to favorites" and move on to the next service. After I get through all of the service listings, I will then contact each of the sellers and ask the same question...

If they respond by saying something along the lines of "Yes, I can do that for you!" then they get a new sale from me lol. Now some of these bloggers may not be native to the United States where I live, so I will go ahead and write up the review myself and send it over to them for posting. Some of you are saying "That's ridiculous! You have to write the review and all they have to do is copy and paste it to complete the work?!?!?!" and yeah, that's what happens. I prefer to write up the review myself because I know it will be in English and not broken English. I can control how the review is written and ensure that it's going to help me out in the long run.

Writing your own reviews on your own blogs
This is a more strenuous task because it requires you to pretty much run your own private blog network, or PBN, in order to get a bunch of reviews up and running. If you already have a bunch of blogs up and running and you treat it as a business, you can consider it a PBN and post quality content about yourself in order to increase your sales lol.

Writing reviews on your own websites might come back to bite you in the butt if you do it wrong. you will need to make sure that your websites can't be linked together, so get different hosting companies for each blog. This is because each blog will be shown on a different host, keeping them off of the same server and IP range.

If your blogs or websites get seen on the same hosting and IP range, you will likely get a penalty if you're only posting positive content about yourself. You can run a few different blogs and websites on the same server and IP range, but they can't really help each other out with falsified positive content for very long.

Affiliate marketing blog reviews
If you have an affiliate program, there are hundreds of thousands of affiliates out there that would gladly post some quality content for you, as long as they can use their own affiliate link.

You won't get much of an SEO benefit from this unless you have an affiliate program that doesn't show something like an "aff ID" in the URL. If your affiliates can promote a subpage dedicated to them, you will get a benefit in the SERPs because it just looks like the random person is promoting your website without getting any sort of commission when the people they refer make a sale.

Affiliates can increase your sales and traffic exponentially if you have the right ones. Not all affiliates are the same, some can send you 1 or 2 sales a month while others can send you 100 a day.

You'll need to get your website in front of them before they will think of publishing content for you. If your offer isn't enticing, kiss their interest goodbye because they won't do the work in order to make pennies on the dollar lol. Some affiliates will set up entire websites dedicated to sending you traffic, in hopes of making some commission. These are the affiliates you need working with you and posting positive content about your website or blog

Random people reviewing your product or service on their blog
These reviews you can't really control since they are from people who are happy or upset with your service or products. They owned a blog before they purchased from you and decided to tell the world about you.

The one thing you can do is boost up the positive reviews that do pop up online by building some high quality backlinks to them. I've done this plenty of times and noticed some sales coming through a third party website that I've never contacted. You can also do this with all of your other reviews and swamp the first page of the search results with positive content about your website

In Conclusion:
Blog reviews are seen as truthful because someone took the time to write up the content for everyone to see. If you are writing the reviews yourself or just asking for some positive reviews from random blogs, the users won't know the difference. As long as you're getting positive content out there about your website, people will read it and make a purchasing decision right then and there. Blog reviews sometimes trump websites like Yelp and SuperPages as well. This is because anyone can post to those review platforms, and they aren't regulated very much. There have actually been services that go out and post dozens of falsified reviews to these platforms just to knock down their competition. It's petty, but it gets done every day So stick with the positive blog reviews and try to avoid the review platforms in the beginning

Responses (21)

The best blog review you can receive imo is when someone in your niche posts a Facebook message or tweet telling their followers about how much they enjoyed their experience with you as an interviewer, writing partner - or reading articles at your website.

I don't have a review blog, however, I have a personal blog, where I publish on a variety of topics. I have done reviews for article sites like Hubpages, I have also published reviews on newspapers. Therefore, I am considering to publish reviews on my blog. I hope I can earn money by selling products that I review.

I agree with this thought because the blogs reviews are written with more attention, patience and affection. It's something more personal, something that prints an idea of â€‹â€‹greater confidence in building a connection with the reader (and this is obviously something important).

I believe this as well,Personally I try to write reviews from a lot of platform before settling for anything especially the ones written by blogs,I tend to believe I get the most out of them,it looks more researched, sincere and balanced.No need sugarcoating what is not in existence.

I honestly think people are more sincere when they are writing on blogs. I may not know how to explain the real reasons for this, but I have this feeling when I read most reviews (they seem to be something well thought out).

Blog reviews are my favorite, especially when you compare them to testimonials of the product itself from the official website (which can be falsely advertised). I can't count how many times I've purchased a product or service after I scrolled through several blog reviews of the product/service made by everyday writers. For those seeking immediate reviews for their products, I suggest writing the first 1-2 on your own. However, you must do them right in an anonymous type manner where people can't link your reviews back to your website. You must also develop different types of characters when it comes to blogging. Otherwise, it'll seem like the same person writing reviews on different websites. Niche related blog reviews are nice, but sometimes you may struggle to get these niche related blogs to write a review of your product.

I couldn't agree more because I am one of those people that usually look for reviews on blogs. Why? Because blogs just seem the most objective and reliable way of getting the feedback. I don't trust the reviews or testimonials provided by the website itself since those can be completely fake and bought but instead I type the product's name/service into Google and look for a review by bloggers.

I feel like they are almost always on point and they provide great information.

I think people are always looking for the validation of their opinion. And for this they are making use of the reviews that are being posted online. And that in itself can be good option to learn from. I have learned that some of the time such platforms can be manipulated. Take yelp for example. It is heavily manipulated but people do believe in the reviews. So it all comes down how the reviews are identified.

I often look for reviews before buying any products and I am sure that many customers do so before purchasing from me. If you have a good relationship with other blog owners in your own niche then you can easily convince them to write a review for you. I think that the easiest thing is to purchase blog reviews. Those reviews may help you to get some customers but they are fake reviews. I have myself written reviews for products I have never used and I got paid for that. I think that as long as this helps you to attract customers to your business it's fine.

I honestly think that a blog review is only as good as the reputation of the blogger given the review. Because unless the blog has some sort of authority then people are not going to trust the review. I have never heard of anyone say hey I saw this review on this average Joe's blog so I bought the product. Its always I saw the review of Tom's Hardware or something similar.

I find people willing to trust that a customer review was written by a customer. It's interesting, though, to read other people's reviews of books/products/places I review. From the wide disagreement on sites like Amazon and Walmart it's possible to get a sense of how something is or isn't working, and why.

I think writing reviews on your own blog can be an effective tool but I think not making a habit of it would be a good idea. The worst thing would be for someone to find out that you were doing your own reviews. I would put no creedence in the site.

Reviews are usually loved by people and visitors can easily get overwhelmed for the information they are likely to get. Visitors do believe that the best of tips, information and money making strategies can be sorted from website and blog comments. When visitors get to notice that your contents are well presented, they always believe that the comments will be fantastic.

The earlier website owners understand this simple logic, the better for them. As a website owner, you simply deliver information in your contents and potential visitors see this and keep visiting.

I agree but the blog really has to look legitimate and the writer should have some authority on the topic or at least come across as honest when they write about themselves and the product. If they are only testing the product and do not know how well the effects will be, then they should just state it and they should be able to tell you if there are any negatives to the products as well. The only time I don't trust blog writers is when I see that they are biased because they got the product for free but most of the time they just state it and still are truthful with the advantages and disadvantages.

That's one problem I see with Amazon/Walmart reviews. "I just bought this new gadget, it arrived on time, and it's worked for..." for how long? Two hours? If I'm going to spend more than $75, I want to know how well it's worked for five or ten years.

I agree that a lot of people trust blog reviews on miscellaneous subjects and products. Am one of such people.

Ever since i got scammed on the internet, I made it a habit to always do a review search before undertaking or signing up with a site. During the course of this, I found a lot of blogs with so many reviews on different subjects which i actually found to be helpful and trustworthy. I'll recommend blog reviews for anyone looking to check out any given subject. But also, not all blogs can be trusted with such sensitive information.

I agree that a blog review can be trusted more especially if more than 1 good review are posted. However, the niche should be the same so the blog reader can easily relate to the business or product that was in review. For example a blog about pets has an article about a pet shop. Comments to that blog will definitely carry some weight on the pet shop. When 2 or more reviews are positive then that’s a big plus and probably can get new prospects for the website of the pet shop.

February 28, 2018, 10:40 pm

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